Archival Note Card | Noh Drama | #1 by Kogyo Tsukioka: Tsurukame Two Women Under Orange Sky

Two robed figures wade through an orange sunset haze, one hooded and one long-haired.

This noh drama archival note card is by Kogyo Tsukioka, and is dated 1897. It is paper. Kogyo Tsukioka, who worked in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is widely known for woodblock prints that recorded scenes and roles from Noh plays. In a horizontal print, a figure in a blue patterned robe and white trousers stands beside a long-haired figure in violet skirts. Streaks of orange cloud fill the ground. Columns of text and a red seal sit at the right. It is 5 inches long and 6.75 high.

Dusk, drapery, and not a word of small talk.